Time Honored A Global View of Architectural Conservation

by Stubbs, John H.

• ISBN13: 9780470260494
• ISBN10: 0470260491
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-14
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Time Honored is a comprehensive survey of the practice, theory, and structure of architectural heritage conservation throughout the world. Offering an argument for why architectural conservation is indispensable to modern life, Time Honored describes its parameters and evolution in an historical context, and then methodically presents approaches used in various countries, showing how historic preservation in the West differs from conservation in the rest of the world. Illustrated throughout with over 300 photographs, drawings, maps, and charts. No other book navigates the global conservation programs, policies, and project types so completely.

Author Biography

John H. Stubbs has served as Vice President for Field Projects for the New York–based World Monuments Fund while teaching part-time as an Associate Professor of Historic Preservation in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University since 1990. His prior experience includes ten years as an associate at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners in New York and two years' service at the Technical Preservation Services division of the U.S. National Park Service in Washington, D.C. A native of Louisiana, Stubbs's international experience began in the 1970s working as a surveyor on archaeological excavations in Italy and Egypt and as a UNESCO Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome.

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword by Sir Bernard Feilden

Acknowledgments

Conserving History in Changing Contexts

Introduction

Inevitable Change

Globalization and Cultural Heritage Conservation

Cultural Sensibility

What Is Architectural Conservation?

Origins and Concerns of Architectural Conservation

What Do We Conserve?

Determining Significance and Value

Types of Value or Significance

Associative Values: Historic and Commemorative

Why Conserve Buildings and Sites?

To Save the Prototype

Historical, Religious, and National Respect

Aesthetic Appreciation

Romanticism and Nostalgia

Shortcomings in Modern Architecture and Planning

Practicality

Tourism

Who Owns the Past?

A Heritage of Universal Importance

History, Historiography, and Architectural Conservation

History and the Passage of Time: Facts, Values, and Notions of History

Viewing Time Through the Lens of History

Perceptions of Time

Perceptions of History

Historiography Until Its Professionalization

Historical Method and the Elusive Ideal of Accuracy

Antiquarianism: Putting the Past on a Pedestal

Archaeology as a Path to Historical Certainty

History and Heritage Conservation

Problems, Principles, and Process

Perils to Built Heritage

An Evolution of Awareness

The Destructive Actions of Time and Nature

Destructive Actions of Humans

Cultural Bias

Risk Preparedness and Response

Options for Involvement

Levels of Participation

Degrees of Intervention

Principles, Charters, and Ethics

Philosophical Approaches

Legislation

Codification of Principles and Doctrine

Five Influential Architectural Conservation Charters and Documents

Ethics and Professionalism

The Conservation Process

Participants in Architectural Conservation

Structure of the Field

The Architectural Conservation Professional Defined

Conservation of the Built Environment: An Enduring Concern

Prehistory Through the Fourteenth Century

An Instinct to Preserve?

Prehistoric Through Hellenistic Times

Reuse and Preservation in Ancient Rome

The Middle Ages in Europe

Fifteenth Through the Eighteenth Centuries

The Renaissance, 1300 to 1600

The Baroque Period Through the Enlightenment, 1600 to 1780

The Forging of a Discipline: The Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries

Italy

France

Great Britain

The German States and Austria

Contemporary Architectural Conservation Practice

International Activities and Cooperation

Contemporary International Architectural Conservation Practice-Origins

International Agencies and Frameworks

Other Regional and International Organizations

European Heritage Conservation Principles Abroad: Action and Reaction

International Training in Architectural Conservation

A Multidimensional Field for the Twenty-First Century

A Summary Global Tour of Contemporary Practice: Challenges and Solutions

Europe

North Africa and Western Asia

Sub-Saharan Africa

Central and South Asia

East and Southeast Asia

Austro-Pacific Region

North America

Latin America and the Caribbean

The Polar Regions

The Past in the Future

Meeting the Challenge and Beyond

Going Forward

Nomenclature Used in International Architectural Conservation Practice

Organizations and Resources Relating to International Architectural Conservation

International and Regional Conventions, Charters, and Recommendations

Annotated Bibliography of One Hundred Selected Titles

Photo Credits

Index

Sidebars

Nomenclature and Common Understandings

Linking the Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage

Values in Heritage Conservation

Riegl and the Meaning of Monuments

Slowing Time and Valorizing the Past

Effects of Writing and Printing on Heritage and Its Conservation

The Distinguishing Role of Conservation Science and Technology

Climate Change

Recent Destruction and Reconstruction: From Ground Zero, New York, to Baghdad, Iraq

ICOMOS-Recommended Qualifications for Competency in Architectural Conservation Practice

International Conferences and Declarations: Milestones of Progress

East Meets West: Two Examples

Twenty Actions That Influenced TodayÆs World Architectural Conservation Practice

Some Ideas That Would Help

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